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ستيفين بايفر

Contact: 202.741.6520
Topics: Arms Control; National Security; Russia; U.S. Defense; Ukraine
Programs: Foreign Policy
Centers: Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology; Center on the United States and Europe
Projects: Arms Control and Non-Proliferation Initiative

Blog Posts

Kenyan Supreme Court judges attend a hearing of a petition challenging the election result filed by the National Super Alliance (NASA) coalition and Human Rights groups at the Supreme Court in Nairobi, Kenya August 28, 2017. REUTERS/Baz Ratner

Africa in Focus

Figure of the week: The role of good governance in eradicating poverty and promoting development

Friday, December 17, 2021

A woman holding her mobile phone walks past a sales advertisement poster in front of a shoe store in Tokyo February 15, 2015. Japan's economy rebounded from recession to grow an annualized 2.2 percent in the final quarter of last year, giving a much-needed boost to premier Shinzo Abe's efforts to shake off decades of stagnation even as the global outlook deteriorates. Picture taken February 15, 2015. REUTERS/Yuya Shino (JAPAN - Tags: BUSINESS POLITICS)

Future Development

Does government debt increase after global recessions?

M. Ayhan Kose, Peter Nagle, Franziska Ohnsorge, and Naotaka Sugawara

Friday, December 17, 2021

FILE PHOTO: Euro, Hong Kong dollar, U.S. dollar, Japanese yen, pound and Chinese 100 yuan banknotes are seen in this picture illustration, January 21, 2016. REUTERS/Jason Lee/Illustration//File Photo

Future Development

Debt tsunami of the pandemic

M. Ayhan Kose, Peter Nagle, Franziska Ohnsorge, and Naotaka Sugawara

Friday, December 17, 2021

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FILE PHOTO: Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy meets with the country's service members at the combat positions near the line of separation from Russian-backed rebels on the Day of the Armed Forces in the Donetsk region, Ukraine December 6, 2021. Ukrainian Presidential Press Service/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY./File Photo

Will Russia launch a full military invasion of Ukraine?

Steven Pifer and Adrianna Pita

Thursday, December 16, 2021

MOSCOW, RUSSIA - DECEMBER 3, 2021: Russia's President Vladimir Putin is seen in his office in the Kremlin as he chairs a videoconference meeting of permanent members of the Russian Security Council. Mikhail Metzel/POOL/TASS.

What Biden should say to Putin on Ukraine

Monday, December 6, 2021

MOSCOW, RUSSIA - SEPTEMBER 11, 2021: Russias President Vladimir Putin speaks during a meeting with Tokyo 2020 medalists at the Moscow Kremlin. Alexei Druzhinin/Russian Presidential Press and Information Office/TASS.No use Russia.

Will Putin miscalculate?

Monday, November 22, 2021

U.S. successfully conducts SM-3 Block IIA Intercept Test against an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Target The U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA), and U.S. Navy sailors aboard the USS John Finn (DDG-113), an Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) System-equipped destroyer, intercepted and destroyed a threat-representative Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) target with a Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Block IIA missile during a flight test demonstration in the broad ocean area northeast of Hawaii, Nov. 16 At approximately 7:50 p.m. Hawaii Standard Time, (12:50 a.m., Nov. 17, Eastern Standard Time), the ICBM-representative target was launched from the Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site, located on Kwajalein Atoll in the Republic of the Marshall Islands, toward the broad ocean area northeast of Hawaii. In this developmental test, the destroyer used engage-on-remote capabilities through the Command and Control Battle Management Communications (C2BMC) network as part of a defense of Hawaii scenario. After receiving tracking data from the C2BMC system, the destroyer launched a SM-3 Block IIA guided missile which destroyed the target.Where: Hawaii, United StatesWhen: 16 Nov 2020Credit: MDA/Cover-Images.com**VIDEOS AVAIL & MORE WORDS: INFO@COVERMG.COM**

Missile defense and the offense-defense relationship

Andrey Baklitskiy, James Cameron, and Steven Pifer

October 2021

U.S. President Joe Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron take part in the final session of the G7 summit in Carbis Bay, Cornwall in Britain, June 13, 2021. Doug Mills/Pool via REUTERS

Trans-Atlantic Scorecard — October 2021

Thursday, October 21, 2021

Handout file photo dated September 28, 2021 of the Los Angeles-class fast-attack submarine USS Columbia (SSN 771) conducts tactical maneuvers and naval formations during a training exercise. A US navy nuclear engineer and his wife have been charged with trying to sell nuclear secrets to what they thought was a foreign state. Jonathan Toebbe and his wife Diana were arrested in West Virginia on Saturday, the Justice Department announced. They allegedly tried to sell nuclear submarine design data, hidden in a peanut butter sandwich, to someone they thought represented another country. In fact, it was an undercover FBI agent. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class James S. Hong via ABACAPRESS.COM

Go bold or go home: The Nuclear Posture Review must give Biden real options

Thursday, October 7, 2021